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Scalia’s Insider-Trading Invitation

The Justice says he’s looking for a good case for the Court to accept.

Updated Nov. 10, 2014 8:14 p.m. ET

Here’s hoping that Justice Antonin Scalia lives forever. The latest case for his perpetual Supreme Court service is his three-page statement Monday all but declaring that he’s looking for the right case to clarify federal insider-trading law.

Justice Scalia joined the rest of the High Court in refusing to hear hedge-fund manager Doug Whitman’s appeal of his insider-trading conviction. But joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice...